Esme- faddy/twilight?!

DH's favourite name is Esme. He's liked it for ages, even before I was pregnant. I really liked it too and we were pretty set on it, but over the last year or so I've noticed it's become quite popular, obviously because it is a gorgeous name but I think it also has an association with a baby in Twilight?! Someone at work recently commented a friend of theirs had announced their baby name as Esme and others commented "oh there's loads of them around at the moment" and "oh yes, like from twilight?". This has sort of given the name a bit of an association for me and I've gone off it, although the rational side of me knows it won't matter in 5+ years, it's still affected how I feel about the name! My current favourite is Erin (which DH does like too). However, DH has mentioned today that he still really likes Esme and its his favourite. What to do?! Any enlightening thoughts?

Is the main problem the popularity or that people would think you got it from Twilight? It's not crazily popular, so that shouldn't be a problem unless you want a really unique name. I would probably assume that young-ish parents got the name from Twilight, but if you are 25+ I would just assume you like the name anyway. How about Esmeralda with NN Esme?

That darkgreener site is very interesting! Esme has gone up from 278th to 65th. I think the twilight association bothers me, I would feel like I would need to say to people "it's Esme... but not from twilight!!" Realise I sound totally irrational!

Esme is lovely. I wouldn't say faddy but is definitely much more popular in the last few years. We have several Esme' s in reception and Y1 but depends if that would worry you? It's a pretty name (I like it more as Es-mee but I know that's another debate in itself!).

I have no idea about the Twilight connection as have never watched it but maybe I'm in the minority there

Erin also popular in these parts - often hyphenated with May/Mae I've noticed!

Just remember that for however many people that have watched/read Twilight, there's just as many that haven't. I haven't done either and have no idea about the connection. It's a very popular name round where I live but it is nice. If you like it, go for it. Just act when they ask if it's from Twilight.

I have an esme. She will be 3 at the end of the month. I choose the name 15 yr ago and had never seen the Twilight films. It does seem to be rising in popularity but ive never had a twilight comment and really dont care as i love the name.

I was going to say it would make me think of Terry Pratchett instead of Twilight. Which to me is a good think. But I have never seen or read Twilight.

How many adults would be familiar with Twilight though?

After calling my dd Gabriella, I was later told by a small child that it is a name in High School Musical, which I've also never seen. It's only ever been mentioned by a child, and then in an excited way. Now HSM appears to be less popular I probably won't hear that again. So the same will probably happen with Twilight - people will forget about it in a couple of years.